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本荘公園

本荘公園, Public park in Akita Prefecture, Japan.

Honjo Park occupies the site of Honjo Castle in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture; the castle grounds are now shared between the park and the city hall. Since the 1990s the park has been redeveloped with a reconstructed castle gate, the Honmaru-no-Yakata rest house with a small lookout over the grounds, the Shushinkan hands-on learning facility, gazebos and paved paths. It also holds the Yuyukan heated indoor pool and the Tsurumai baseball ground.

Honjo Park was laid out during the Taisho period on the site of Honjo Castle, whose grounds now hold mainly the Yurihonjo city hall and the park. From the 1990s the grounds were redeveloped: a castle gate was reconstructed, the Honmaru-no-Yakata rest pavilion and the Shushinkan study facility were built, and the paths were paved. In 1952 it placed 29th in the first Akita Prefecture Tourism Thirty Views poll.

Each spring the park hosts a cherry blossom festival in mid-to-late April, when about 1,200 Somei Yoshino trees bloom, followed by an azalea festival in mid-May for roughly 10,000 azaleas. Yurihonjo promotes these together with other local flower events as the Yurihonjo Spring Flower Tour.

Honjo Park is about 8 minutes on foot from Ugo-Honjo Station on the JR Uetsu Line and Yuri Kogen Railway, or about 10 minutes by car from the Honjo IC on the Nihonkai-Tohoku Expressway. The grounds hold the heated pool Yuyukan and Tsurumai Baseball Ground, and the Tsurumai Onsen lies across Otezukuri Bank.

The park occupies the site of Honjo Castle, of which few Edo-period remains survive; the castle gate was reconstructed from the 1990s onward. A small lookout called Honmaru no Yakata stands in the grounds and looks down over the park. In 1952 the park placed 29th in the first Akita Prefecture Tourism Thirty Views poll, with 33,672 votes.

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